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... Emojis have grown in popularity as a method for digital communication. Recently, there has been interest in the connection between emojis and emotional response to consumer products. Research has been conducted linking emojis and the emotional response from food stimuli in adults via avenues such as Twitter, and in children. An online study was conducted to assess the application of an emoji-based ...
... Two events have helped to shape protozoology/protistology as a specific scientific discipline. The first such event was the creation of the Society of Protozoologists in the U.S. in 1947 (and of its Journal of Protozoology, first published in 1954), the second event was the First International Conference on Protozoology, held in 1961 in Prague. The history of the Society of Protozoologists was com ...
UnitedStates, etc ; adsorbents; coordination polymers; plutonium; radioactive waste; radionuclides; remediation; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Remediation of legacy nuclear waste is one of the greatest challenges faced by the US Department of Energy, with projected cleanup efforts requiring over five decades and hundreds of billions of dollars. New materials are necessary to accelerate waste processing, achieving time and financial savings. Herein we report a peroxide treatment to a Ti metal-organic framework (MOF) and related MOF-templa ...
UnitedStates, etc ; binging; consciousness; females; gender differences; males; stigma; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Weight stigma and weight discrimination are prevalent in the United States and binge eating has been found to be associated with these experiences in numerous studies. One issue with the current literature on weight stigma and binge eating, however, is that study samples are primarily female, resulting in a lack of understanding of this relationship among males. To address this gap, we examined po ...
UnitedStates, etc ; electricity; markets; resource allocation; supply balance; Show all 5 Subjects
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... How to balance supply and demand has become a long-term question in the electricity market, and anomalies related to calendar issues are critical factors to affect the resource allocation. This paper introduces a test method to assess the significance of all possible calendar effects in different time frequencies. We implement our test method to the largest electricity trading platform in the Unit ...
UnitedStates, etc ; automobiles; batteries; energy costs; markets; models; prices; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The aim of this study is to show the progress in attributes and prices of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and to analyse in which market segments long range BEV can be produced at comparable cost to conventional cars. We assess 48 models available to consumers since 1997, collecting data on attributes, weight and vehicle prices. We also provide an analysis of recent progress in battery pack costs. ...
Boone, J. Scott; Vigo, Craig; Boone, Tripp; Byrne, Christian; Ferrario, Joseph; Benson, Robert; Donohue, Joyce; Simmons, Jane Ellen; Kolpin, Dana W.; Furlong, Edward T.; Glassmeyer, Susan T.
UnitedStates Environmental Protection Agency; UnitedStates, etc ; drinking water; drinking water treatment; perfluorooctane sulfonic acid; perfluorooctanoic acid; rivers; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are of interest to regulators, water treatment utilities, the general public and scientists. This study measured 17 PFAS in source and treated water from 25 drinking water treatment plants (DWTPs) as part of a broader study of CECs in drinking water across the United States. PFAS were quantitatively dete ...
UnitedStates Geological Survey; UnitedStates, etc ; climatic factors; engineering; infrastructure; risk reduction; water analysis; water flow; water use efficiency; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Diversifying a system can reduce risk from- and increase resilience to perturbation. For this reason, the concept of diversity has been used in many different fields but its use in analyzing engineering infrastructure has been limited. In particular, the diversity of water sources and uses and the diversity of how sources are connected to uses (flow) have never been analyzed. In addition, the rela ...
UnitedStates Geological Survey; UnitedStates, etc ; algorithms; data collection; humans; hydrologic models; infrastructure; planning; stream flow; water resources; watersheds; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The ability to effectively manage water resources to meet present and future human and environmental needs is essential. Such an ability necessitates a comprehensive understanding of hydrologic processes that affect streamflow at a watershed scale. In the United States, water-resources management at scales ranging from local to national can benefit from a nationally consistent, process-based water ...
... Time-cost models have been developed in various contexts to assist in forecasting the duration of different types of projects. The present research explores the influence of the construction technology on the time-cost relationship. For that purpose, the data from 21 sewerage projects using trenchless technology and from 49 sewerage projects using the traditional open-cut method was analyzed. The ...
... The purpose of this research is to identify the challenges faced by full-service restaurant brands internationalizing across the border between the United States and Canada. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from 54 senior executives across the US and Canada. The results show differences in the challenges faced by U.S. versus Canadian full-service restaurant brands when they are ...
... Cladoceran zooplankton subfossils have been widely applied as indicators of lake health and used to infer past environmental change. However, our understanding of how the environment controls the abundance and distribution of Cladocera, as recorded in lake sediments, is still developing; only a few large landscape studies have been conducted in temperate North American lakes. Here we examine clado ...
UnitedStates, etc ; environmental indicators; issues and policy; land degradation; land management; protocols; rangelands; uncertainty; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Much of the confusion about the definition of reference conditions for land health and degradation assessments is due to differences in policy and management objectives. Selection of a historic reference where it is not necessary, such as in the definition of future land degradation neutrality, can add significant cost and uncertainty to land management projects that require some knowledge of the ...
Western UnitedStates, etc ; case studies; decision making; interviews; landscapes; planning; politics; public policy; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Alternative Futures (AF) landscape ecological planning integrates scientific inquiry and findings into plausible futures that can shape and inform decisions on public policy. AF theorists typically present an AF process in which expert deliberation about technically possible futures is separate from political decision-making about desirable or socially acceptable futures. This paper offers an alte ...
UnitedStates Environmental Protection Agency, etc ; environmental indicators; groundwater; heavy metals; models; pollution; water quality; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Hazard index and various heavy metal pollution indices in groundwater are generally poorly correlated though all of them aim to address water quality. A semi empirical approach has been proposed for correlating Hazard Index (HI) of groundwater samples with a recently introduced heavy metal pollution index, m-HPI. m-HPI has two components, a positive index (PI) and a negative index (NI). It is poss ...
UnitedStates Environmental Protection Agency, etc ; algorithms; atmospheric chemistry; data collection; models; organic carbon; particulates; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This study developed a receptor model, comprising four non-negative matrix factorization algorithms: the multiplicative update method; the optimal gradient method; the highly efficient, monotonic, fixed-point method; and the conjugate gradient method. The feasibility and performance of the developed model for emission source apportionment were assessed, using both a synthetic dataset, and an ambie ...
UnitedStates, etc ; children; detergents; fever; geometry; hemagglutination; immunogenicity; influenza; influenza vaccines; lipid content; seizures; seroconversion; Show all 12 Subjects
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... In the Southern Hemisphere 2010 influenza season, Seqirus’ split-virion, trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine was associated with increased reports of fevers and febrile reactions in young children. A staged clinical development program of a quadrivalent vaccine (Seqirus IIV4 [S-IIV4]; Afluria® Quadrivalent/Afluria Quad™/Afluria Tetra™), wherein each vaccine strain is split using a higher deter ...
UnitedStates, etc ; climate models; convection; floods; hurricanes; mathematical models; rain; troposphere; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Hurricane Irene (2011) was a category 3 tropical storm that resulted in severe flooding, causing at least 40 deaths and more than $15 billion in damaged property along the US northeastern seaboard (Avila and Cangialosi, 2011). This work analyzes the sensitivity of numerical simulations of this devastating storm to the physical parameterizations in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model a ...